When I was a kid I had a pair of sunglasses with a single narrow horizontal lens that wrapped around my face. The sunglasses offered an uninterrupted 1800 view and because the lens was so narrow they cropped the view on top and bottom. At the time they had a futuristic quality to them but looking at images of them now they have a decidedly retro look. I began to think about how my perception of the world would be affected by wearing sunglasses like that all of the time. That thought process, my work, travel, research and other spontaneous revelations are the basis of this journal.
In Zurich the city flows through the train station...a brave, optimistic gesture towards the future in a present where fear often guides public policy....
Recent urban projects in Barcelona and Marseilles use mirrors as a ceiling material giving the structure a sense of lightness and dynamism, a reflection of the past and present, a passage to the future....
The Nakagin Capsule hotel still stands in Tokyo a soiled dystopian image of a utopian future dream from an idealistic past…….